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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If… Our Buses Were Mobile Gardens

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Marco Castro Cosio of NYU has a mobile vision for urban green spaces…

“If we grew a garden on the roof of every one of the 4,500 buses in the MTA bus fleet, we would have 35 acres of new rolling green space in the city.”

Via LikeCool.

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